What happened This day in History on April 27th

1954 U.S.A. Movie "White Christmas"
27th April 1954 : The Movie White Christmas featuring the songs of Irving Berlin, including the Title Song White Christmas, starring Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye, opens at Radio City Music Hall.
The original song "White Christmas" was originally heard for the first time in the 1942 film Holiday Inn starring Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire.

1938 U.S.A. Average Incomes Down Up to 20%
27th April 1938 : The national average income again dropped in comparison from 10 years ago in 1928 by 7% with some areas of the workforce earning up to 20% less than 10 years ago.

1938 U.S.A. Tommy Dorsey
27th April 1938 : Tommy Dorsey and his orchestra recorded "I Hadn’t Anyone ’til You" with Jack Leonard as vocalist. Tommy Dorsey and his brother became two of the most famous big band leaders of their day and are still the model for many jazz and swing musicians today.

1945 Germany War Entering Final Phase
27th April 1945 : The war in Europe is entering it's final phase as Russian and American troops join hands at the River Elbe in Germany. Ten Days later on May 7th Germany signs unconditional surrender.

1948 U.S.A. Rail Strike
27th April 1948 : A Major Rail Strike country wide is due to start at midnight with much of the rail network closed down across the US

1953 U.S.A. Executive Order 10450
27th April 1953 : President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed Executive Order 10450: Hiring and Firing rules for Government Employment. Homosexuality, moral perversion, and communism were categorized as national security threats and could be used as a condition for firing a federal employee and for denying employment to potential applicants.

1961 Sierra Leone Gains Independence
27th April 1961 : Sierra Leone in West African gains independence, after more than 150 years of British colonial rule.

1968 Middle East Continued Fighting
27th April 1968 : More fighting broke out along the Suez Canal and the River Jordon between Israel and Arab Troops with Egyptian and Jordanian and Israel Forces lined up against each other in a tense middle east

1968 U.S.A. War in Vietnam
27th April 1968 : Many thousands of diversified beliefs protested against the War in Vietnam and many antiwar demonstrators ended up in fights with local police forces around the country who were trying to keep the peace

1971 Wales Welsh Language Society
27th April 1971 : Eight members of the Welsh Language Society ( The Society wishes to preserve the Welsh Language and part of that was to include all signs in Wales to be bilingual ) they are accused of conspiring to damage, remove or destroy English language road signs in Wales.

1974 U.S.A. Calls For Impeachment Nixon
27th April 1974 : Calls for the impeachment of president Nixon gathered pace as a march by Thousands of protesters demanding Nixon to be impeached .

1978 Afghanistan Rebels Take Over
27th April 1978 : Military rebels in Afghanistan murdered both the president and his brother during the coup and have taken over all news TV and radio stations in the capital Kabul and have sealed off the countries airports and roads.

1984 England Libyan Embassy Siege Ends
27th April 1984 : Earlier in the week diplomatic ties are severed between England and Libya and Libyan embassy officials are given 7 days to leave the country. The British ambassador to Libya was given the same deadline to leave Tripoli. Today Libyan diplomats under diplomatic immunity are escorted to Heathrow and onto a plane out of the country which allows the person or persons unknown who shot and killed WPC Fletcher to leave the country and not have to face murder charges.

1992 England Betty Boothroyd
27th April 1992 : Betty Boothroyd, is elected as Speaker in the house of commons becoming the first woman speaker in its 700-year history.

1994 South Africa Nelson Mandela
27th April 1994 : South Africans vote in the country's first multiracial parliamentary elections.
Nelson Mandela of the ANC is voted by a landslide to be the next president of South Africa and head the new coalition government.

2005 France Airbus A380
27th April 2005 : The Airbus A380 makes it's maiden test flight in Toulouse, France. The Airbus A380 ( Superjumbo ) is the largest passenger airliner in the world, it is a double-deck wide-body, four-engine aircraft which is capable of carrying up to 853 people in all economy class configurations, This is about 300 more than the Jumbo Jet from Boeing which has been in service for nearly 40 years. The Airbus A380 has now been in commercial use since 2007, Boeing is working on a similar aircraft with similar passenger carrying capabilities.

2007 Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia detains multiple terror suspects
27th April 2007 : Saudi Arabia claims to have foiled a plot to carry out suicide air attacks on
oil installations and military bases in the area.
Foreign nationals are among the suspects that are being held from a series of
raids. Large amounts of weapons and $32.4
million in cash were seized in these. The Saudi authorities have been battling
al-Qaeda since 2003.

2008 Austria Josef Fritzl is arrested for imprisoning his daughter for 24 years
27th April 2008 : A 73-year-old Austrian, Josef Fritzl, has been arrested on suspicion of keeping
his daughter locked in a cellar for 24 years,
and fathering seven children with her. The existence of the woman, believed missing
since 1984 and now 42, was discovered
after her teenage daughter was taken to hospital. Both the woman and teenage girl
are receiving medical treatment. The police
investigation in Amstetten, Lower Austria Province, is continuing.

United States 2011 United States President Obama Releases Birth Certificate
27th April, 2011 : President Obama released his long-form birth certificate from the US state of Hawaii in an effort to quell "birther" conspiracy theorists. Obama stated that he hoped the release of this information would put to rest questions of his presidential eligibility and refocus the political debate on important issues.

Romania 2012 Romania Romania Government Falls After No Confidence Vote
27th April, 2012 : After only two months of being in office, Romania's government fell due to a no confidence vote and prime minister Mihai Razvan Ungureanu was ousted. The Romanian president, Traian Basecu, then designated Victor Ponta, the opposition leader, as the new prime minister. The no confidence vote came after the opposition seized on public anger over salary cuts and raised taxes.

Vatican City 2014 Vatican City Two Popes Declared Saints by Vatican

27th April, 2014 : The Vatican has declared Pope John Paul II and Pope John XXIII as saints. This was the first time in history that two popes were canonized at the same time. A crowd of thousands gathered to hear the news.

Born This Day In History 27th April

Celebrating Birthday's TodayUlysses S. Grant Born: Hiram Ulysses Grant 27th April 1822 Point Pleasant, Ohio, United StatesDied: July 23rd, 1885 Mount McGregor, New York, United StatesKnown For : Ulysses S. Grant was the 18th President of the United States from 1869 to 1877, his election win followed his commanding the Union Army from 1864 to 1869 during the American Civil War. Following the Union Army winning in the American Civil War Ulysses S. Grant was elected by the combined North and South due to his handling of the war, but more importantly how he handled the surrender and allowed the confederates to keep their horses and some dignity.